Difference between revisions of "ARK2"

Revision as of 12:26, 16 December 2017

This page details the progress on development of ARK 2.0

The primary aims of ARK2 are:

Full code re-write to modern standards using modern components
Separate the ARK Database backend from the ARK Web frontend
Implement a modern RESTful API to allow other frontends and apps to access and update the ARK Database
Simplify the setup and configuration of ARK by moving the config into the database and providing online config tools
Improve the overall performance and data integrity of ARK
Make it possible to provide an ARK hosting service

Modern frontend

Modern backend

Full REST API to access and update all ARK data
Database abstraction and Object Relational Mapping
Config driven data schema
Controlled Vocabularies
User Authentication via internal user/password and external OAuth2 providers (Facebook, Google, etc)
User Authorisation via Role Based Access Control (RBAC) using hierarchical Roles and Permissions structure
Field-level data access control
Data Workflows in conjunction with User Authorisation control

Details of ARK2 can be found in the following sections:

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 * [[ARK2/Design|Design]] - High Level Design Decisions
 * [[ARK2/Technical|Technical]] - Technical details, Development tools and procedures
+* [[ARK2/The_ARK_Way|The ARK Way]] - Web Development - The ARK2 Way
 * [[ARK2/Install|Install]] - Installation Instructions
 * [[ARK2/Architecture|Architecture]] - System Architecture